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Artwork of the Week: Student at a Table by Candlelight

December 11, 2023
Students across university campuses are well acquainted with the feeling of a late-night study session, especially as finals approach. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Winter Trees

December 04, 2023
Winter Trees was painted by the watercolorist and educator Edward Maryon who taught art at the University of Utah for over 30 years. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Fall Games—The Apple Bee

November 27, 2023
Mahonri Young’s drawing invites the viewer to experience this fall day alongside the farmer plowing the field. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Fall Flowers

November 20, 2023
Mahonri Young’s drawing invites the viewer to experience this fall day alongside the farmer plowing the field. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: En Bateau (The Boat Ride)

November 13, 2023
Mahonri Young’s drawing invites the viewer to experience this fall day alongside the farmer plowing the field. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Fall Plowing

November 06, 2023
Mahonri Young’s drawing invites the viewer to experience this fall day alongside the farmer plowing the field. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Deborah and Ma Cat

October 30, 2023
Do you feel like we are intruding? This surrealist inspired painting sure doesn’t seem like it wants us to understand what exactly is going on. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Yellow Cat Belonging to a Thinking Woman

October 23, 2023
Hal Douglas Himes taught printmaking at BYU for several years. His work is often encoded with cryptic symbols that tease the viewer with intended meanings while subverting their attempts to arrive at any straightforward interpretation. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: The Cat

October 16, 2023
These cats are beginning to get a bit creepy! · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Anonymous Japanese Print

October 09, 2023
The cat depicted in this anonymous Japanese print has been causing its owner trouble—this is clearly not their first catch. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Two Cats and Three Buckets

October 02, 2023
In the spirit of Halloween, this month the MOA is celebrating one of nature’s most enigmatic creatures: cats! · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: The Blind Man at the Pool of Siloam

September 25, 2023
The Gospel of John contains 7 signs or miracles, and the healing of the blind man at the Pool of Siloam is the 6th. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Lazy Autumn

September 18, 2023
In 1939, Dixon and his wife built a home in Mt. Carmel, Utah. Here they admired the natural landscape of the area until his death in 1946. This quintessentially Utahn scene portrays Native Americans as part of the natural landscape. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Sunset, Hudson River

September 11, 2023
As we anticipate the transition from the blistering of summer heat to the crispness of fall, let us celebrate a painting in which the sun itself retreats into the autumn leaves. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Riding the Girder

September 04, 2023
This Labor Day, we celebrate Mahonri Young- a social realist and grandson of Latter-day Saint prophet Brigham Young. Young celebrated laborers throughout his entire career- both in his art and in his personal advocacy. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Self-Portrait

August 28, 2023
From the time she was a little girl, Minerva Teichert wanted to be an artist. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: A Corner Window in a Pawn Shop

August 21, 2023
The smells of old paper, curtains, and metals envelop you as you peek into the neighborhood pawn shop. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Untitled (Train Crossing Great Salt Lake, Utah)

August 14, 2023
Happy World Photography Day! It is estimated that five billion photos are taken around the world every day. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Industry

August 07, 2023
Mahonri Young’s art journey began as a young boy modeling clay as a five-year-old, and led to him dropping out of school to pursue art (though he always loved reading). · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Figure of Count Bruhl's Tailor

July 31, 2023
Behold the goat and its rider, the tailor to Count Heinrich von Brühl, in all their flashy glory and excess. Both goat and tailor convey an irrepressible, overly confident swagger. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Broward County, Florida

July 24, 2023
In this photograph, business cards stapled to a flat surface advertise a dizzying array of services, providing one view of the commercial and community offerings of Broward County, Florida, in 1989 · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Through the Port Hole

July 17, 2023
As one of the first artists from Utah to receive formal training abroad, James Taylor Harwood was no stranger to international travel, shuttling between the United States and France · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Sketch With Interior View

July 10, 2023
Before the emergence of computer-assisted design/drafting (CAD), there was pencil on paper. This was Ella Peacock’s world. · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Cadillac Town Car

July 03, 2023
As a professor of photography at the University of New Mexico, Patrick Ryoichi Nagatani created a remarkable body of work that drew on techniques of photography, collage, and research to examine the atomic history and radioactive life of the American Southwest · Learn more about this work

Artwork of the Week: Iron Out

June 26, 2023
From the late 1970s through the 1990s, graphic designer McRay Magleby and copywriter Norm Darais created witty and visually engaging informational posters for Brigham Young University. · Learn more about this work